Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (repealed 6.3.1992)

149 Employee trusts. U.K.

(1) Where—

(a) a close company disposes of an asset to trustees in circumstances such that the disposal is a disposition which by virtue of [F1 section 13 of the Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984] (employee trusts) is not a transfer of value for the purposes of capital transfer tax, or

(b) an individual disposes of an asset to trustees in circumstances such that the disposal is an exempt transfer by virtue of [F1 section 28 of the Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984] (employee trusts: capital transfer tax),

this Act shall have effect in relation to the disposal in accordance with subsections (2) and (3) below.

(2) [F2 Section 29A(1)] above (consideration deemed to be equal to market value) shall not apply to the disposal; and if the disposal is by way of gift or is for a consideration not exceeding the sums allowable as a deduction under section 32 above—

(a) the disposal, and the acquisition by the trustees, shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as being made for such consideration as to secure that neither a gain nor a loss accrues on the disposal, and

(b) where the trustees dispose of the asset, its acquisition by the company or individual shall be treated as its acquisition by the trustees.

(3) Where the disposal is by a close company, section 75(1) above (assets disposed of for less than market value) shall apply to the disposal as if for the reference to market value there were substituted a reference to market value or the sums allowable as a deduction under section 32 above, whichever is the less.

(4) Subject to subsection (5) below, this Act shall also have effect in accordance with subsection (2) above in relation to any disposal made by a company other than a close company if—

(a) the disposal is made to trustees otherwise than under a bargain made at arm’s length, and

(b) the property disposed of is to be held by them on trusts of the description specified in [F1 section 86(1) of the Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984 (that is to say, those in relation to which the said section 13 of that Act has effect)] and the persons for whose benefit the trusts permit the property to be applied include all or most of either—

(i) the persons employed by or holding office with the company, or

(ii) the persons employed by or holding office with the company or any one or more subsidiaries of the company.

(5) Subsection (4) above does not apply if the trusts permit any of the property to be applied at any time (whether during any such period as is referred to in [F1 the said section 86(1)] or later) for the benefit of—

(a) a person who is a participator in the company (“the donor company”), or

(b) any other person who is a participator in any other company that has made a disposal of property to be held on the same trusts as the property disposed of by the donor company, being a disposal in relation to which this Act has had effect in accordance with subsection (2) above, or

(c) any other person who has been a participator in the donor company or any such company as is mentioned in paragraph (b) above at any time after, or during the ten years before, the disposal made by that company, or

(d) any person who is connected with a person within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above.

(6) The participators in a company who are referred to in subsection (5) above do not include any participator who—

(a) is not beneficially entitled to, or to rights entitling him to acquire, 5 per cent. or more of, or of any class of the shares comprised in, its issued share capital, and

(b) on a winding-up of the company would not be entitled to 5 per cent. or more of its assets;

and in determining whether the trusts permit property to be applied as mentioned in that subsection, no account shall be taken—

(i) of any power to make a payment which is the income of any person for any of the purposes of income tax, or would be the income for any of those purposes of a person not resident in the United Kingdom if he were so resident, or

(ii) if the trusts are those of a profit sharing scheme approved under the M1 Finance Act 1978, of any power to appropriate shares in pursuance of the scheme.

(7) In subsection (4) above “subsidiary” has [F3 the same meaning as in][F3 the meaning given by section 736 of] the [F4 Companies Act 1985] and in subsections (5) and (6) above “participator” has the meaning given in section [F5 417(1)] of [F5 the Taxes Act 1988], except that it does not include a loan creditor.

(8) In this section “close company” includes a company which, if resident in the United Kingdom, would be a close company as defined in section 155(1) below.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c. 51), s. 276 and Sch. 8 para. 11

F2 Words substituted by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35, SIF 63:2), s. 90(3)(a) in relation to acquisitions and disposals on or after 10 March 1981

F3 Words “the meaning given by section 736 of” substituted from a day to be appointed for “the same meaning as in” by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40), s. 144(4), Sch. 18 para. 20

F4 Words substituted by Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 9), s. 30 and Sch. 2

F5 Words substituted by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), Sch. 29 paras. 15 and 32

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 See— Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964 (c. 81); Commonwealth Secretariat Act 1966 (c. 10); International Organisations Act 1968 (c. 48); Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), s. 505

C2 See Finance Act 1986 (c. 41), s. 100 for occasions when Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984 (c. 51, SIF 65) renamed Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c. 51)

Marginal Citations

M1 1978 c. 42.